Looking Out To Sea

We’ve spent the evening “arranging our finances”. Which is one of those code words which works in all circumstances. The well organised might imagine I was on the phone to my broker, reading the Financial Times and getting the heavies to visit my tenants and rough them up a bit.

In actual fact I was playing around with GnuCash in a reasonably effective drive to find out if I have any money. After two, maybe three false starts — I really am completely lost with money terminology — I got it all together and stopped randomly losing/deleting transactions. I’m also pretty sure that what I have here matches my current bank balance.

I’ve complained about my bank in the past, but I do have this to say for them: they give me my statements in Quicken format, which is simple text and can be imported by everything. If only they could do it in a more flexible manner than “one month at a time”. But I’m pretty pleased with GnuCash. Check it out if you’re in need of something (reasonably) simple to handle your debt…

So, trivia fans. It seems that in the last ten months I spent the least money on Sundays and the most money on Fridays. The working days seem to be fairly evenly distributed apart from that. Saturday is cheaper than Friday, surprisingly — I guess that may just be an artefact of the banking system, and will explain why there is a small spike on Monday too.